Good news! Messi and the Argentina National Team are Ready to Face Indonesia in June

– Good news has come from the Argentina national team fronted by Lionel Messi for Indonesian football. Lionel Messi and friends are reportedly ready to face the Indonesian national team on June 18 or 19.

The good news was conveyed by news sites TYC Sports as quoted Beritasatu.com Thursday (18/5/2023). “Confirmed: the next rivals of the Argentine National Team (Confirmed: next opponent of the Argentine National Team, Red),” read the TYC Sports title.

“The Argentina National Team has decided everything for the next friendly matches, before the start of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers (United States, Mexico and Canada),” the media wrote.

It is said, La Albiceleste, nicknamed the Argentina National Team, will tour Asia. Lionel Messi et al will first face Australia in China and then visit Indonesia to face coach Shin Tae-yong’s children.

Lionel Scaloni’s national team will first face the Australian team, the rivals they eliminated in the round of 16 of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, around June 15 in Beijing. Then, the 2022 world champion will face Indonesia as a guest team on June 18 or 19.

It was also stated that these two friendly matches would be the last for the Argentina national team before the start of the South American zone World Cup qualifying round. Qualifying rounds will begin in September, where Argentina will meet Ecuador and then face Bolivia in La Paz.

The certainty that the Argentina national team will play a FIFA Friendly Match with Indonesia was mentioned after the success of the Indonesian U-22 national team winning the gold medal at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia. Marselina Ferdinan and friends achieved great success after dramatically defeating two strong teams from Southeast Asia, Vietnam (finals) and Thailand (finals).

Of the 6 matches played by the Indonesian National Team at the 2023 SEA Games, Indra Sjafri’s team has never lost, aka wiped out all matches. In fact, Garuda Muda successfully scored 21 goals and conceded only 5 times.

It didn’t stop there, two Indonesian U-22 national team players, namely Fajar Faturrahman and Ramadhan Sananta became the top scorers alias top scorers. Both of them successfully scored 5 goals during the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia.

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